Whether DPI - C functions can be used in the environment where the top is in C.

I have created a simple example for dpi functions. Below is the code:

CODE: C_file.c

#include "stdio.h" 
#include "svdpi.h" 
//int main()
//{
extern void export_func(void); 
void import_func() 
{ 
export_func(); 
} 
//}

CODE: SV_file.sv

module sv_file;export"DPI-C"function export_func;import"DPI-C"contextfunctionvoid import_func();functionvoid export_func();
$display("SV: Hello from SV ");endfunctioninitialbegin
import_func();endendmodule

I am running the code with the command,
irun –sv sv_file.sv c_file.c

The dpi functions are working fine as expected.

But this code is without main() function. When I try running the code with main function, the sv code is not able to find the import_func definition in C.
1. So I wanted to know whether dpi functions can be used in an environment where we have only C testcases instead without sv testcases (ie) C is in the top of the environment and execution starts and ends in C.
2. And, I am not able to run the code when I am trying to use only the export function (ie) calling the C-defined function in SV. Is it possible to use only the export function without import?

Your help will be very useful for me. Thank you.